The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-06-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

soon after The cause was heart disease.
THE first train on the Canadian Pacific
railroad reached the Vancouver ocean
terminus on the oath. Hitherto trains
stopped at New Westminster. There was
a great celebration over the completion OF
the line.
A. +. POWELL was arrested at Atchison,
Kas. on the 9th, on charge OF forgery
committed at Omaha.
A CLASH occurred between Belgian SOL
diers and mine rioters on the 9th, and
worse collisions are feared
WASHINGTON estimates of the surplus
revenue for the current fiscal year, now
nearly completed, place it at about $lOO,-
100000
TENANTS at Bodyke, County Clare, Ire
land, are resisting eviction, and bloodshed
is expected to result.
THREE human lives are reported to have
been lost in the New York Belt Line car
stables fire.
THE Canadian Parliament has virtually
confirmed the monopoly in Manitoba OF
the Canadian Pacific railway.
In the National Presbyterian Assembly
on the 9th, committee was ordered APP
pointed to confer with similar commit
tee from the St. Louis assembly, to devise
means of closer relationship
MEXICO is reported as having arranged
big financial deal with English capital
lists, including the management of the
minis.
MANCHESTER spinners have agreed to
run their mills on half time in order to
break the cotton corner at Liverpool.
Failures among cotton spectators are
predicted.
JOHN GREENwELL was sentenced by
Judge Moore in the Brooklyn Court Of
Sessions on the 9th to be hanged on
Friday, July Is next, for the murder Of
Lyman S. Weeks.
PARNELL's friends are defending him
against the charges of rack-renting,
claiming his practices are the opposite to
those charged by his enemies
APAssENGER train on the Pennsylvania
| railroad jumped the track at Horse Shoe
night of the 18th, ami three cars went
over an embankment. Four persons were
killed and number injured.
Tue British War ONCE in London has
| forbidden the allowance of reporters and
foreigners generally to visit Canadian
citadels and other military strongholds.
The United States revenue cutter Oliver
Walcott reports having found the ship St.
Stephens at Cape Cook, but the most
| diligent search failed to reveal trace of
her crew of thirty men.
REV. ETHELBERT TALBOT was conse-
Grated Bishop of Wyoming and Idaho, at
| Christ church, st. Louis, on the 9th.
Twelve bishops of the Episcopal church
were present and ofliciated in the cere.
monies, which were most beautiful,
solemn and impressive.
THE Naval Advisory Board report to the
Secretary of the Navy that the new
cruiser Atlanta has developed to within
four per cent of the contract horse
power; that the vessel is strong and well
built and capable of showing increased
power with some minor changes.
THE United States Supreme Court has
adjourned for the term.
The business of the Government fol
May indicates large reduction of th'
public debt. Receipts to the 9th wer(
S3l, 2S5,02l; expenditures, $50, $40 S3}; sur
plus for the month, $40, 73S, 1888. The ex
penditures include about $40 900, 800 paiC
on account of pensions.
IT is estimated that the new higb-licenst
law in Pennsylvania will give Philadel
phia liquor revenue of 1900, 900, and tn
State liquor revenue of Sl,3)0,00l
CONSIDERABLE excitement was create,
at Denver, Col, on the 9th, over the dealt
of the trotting stallion, j. A. South. 1t Il
reported the animal died from the effect
NJ tNnian, rivan him, N IafnoN IN a.
2:3O race, for which he was entered. H
was owned by Nat Bruen of Burlington
Ia, and was valued at $4,000
THE total collections of internal revC
nue. for the first ten months of the fsca
year ending June 30 were sos, 25S, O66, bein
$5O,650 less than collections during tn
corresponding period of the previous fisca
year.
HENRY STEWART, Sing Sing On. Y,
convict, made his escape from the prise
on the 9Th, and no trace of him has bee
found. He was employed in a laundry o
Troy shirts. When box was packed 70
shipment to that city he secreted himsel
in case and was carried out and loade
into the car. He cut his way out with
small saw and chisel leaving his prise
clothes behind on the car floor.
The jury in the celebrated Nelson wi
case at Minneapolis, Mimi, lnvolvin
100000, brought in a verdict on the 27t
sustaining the last WILL giving the who
property to the wife. Colonel A. d. Ne
son, of Marysville, KY, had made sewers
wills, dividing the property equally b
tween his wife and only sister. Ten hour
before his death, in December, 1885,
Georgia, he made a new will, giving all
his wife. The sister contested the will.
THE ninth annual congress of the Anne
lean LaryngologIcal Association, held
New York. closed its sessions on the est
The President has authorized the allo
ment of lands in severalty to the Indian
, on the Muckles boot reservation in Was
ington Territory.
The LORNA Palmer Cooperage factor
in Williamsburg, N. Y, was totally
stroyed by fire on the night Of the 2St
1t covered an entire square; loss, near
100000
Jay GOULD Is suffering with an attat
of neuralgia at his nome at Irvington
on the Hudson.
. THE Erie railroad freight depot
Brooklyn, together with a number
loaded cars, was burned on the night
the 2Sth; loss, 100000,
HEAVY hail storms visited Sullivan al